“It may be a long time before the end of the war in Ukraine,” the German chancellor repeated. Olaf Soltzspeaking at a newspaper event Rhine post in Düsseldorf.

“We must understand that this terrible, aggressive war and its consequences will bother us for a long time to come and that it will take a long time to restore the ruins,” the chancellor said.

However, he believes that any overthrow of power in Moscow should not come by force from abroad, noting that efforts to achieve peace – but not at the behest of Russia – must continue in any case.

Conversations between Soltz and Putin in German

However, what the German chancellor says about his telephone conversations with the Russian president is also of interest. Vladimir Putin.

According to Olaf Soltz, these phone calls last about an hour and a halfwith their last interaction last December.

In these telephone conversations, in fact, the Russian president does not use German translation, because he himself fully understands the content in German.

Sometimes, indeed, “when it’s convenient,” Olaf Soltz says, Vladimir Putin answers in German.

Despite differences of opinion about Ukraine, which are expressed at every opportunity, Olaf Soltz reports that phone calls are conducted in a polite tone. However, he stressed that on the German side, it is always clear to the Russian president that “only Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine,” which invaded a foreign country, seizing parts of it and violating the peaceful order of things. in Europe.

Source: dv